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@MrsBananaGrabber: I stopped reading the news. My PPA can't handle it.

No good answer either. I get tears when I look at my innocent baby because how do we really protect them from all of this evil? My heart breaks for all of the victims and their families as they are all someone's baby. (In Paris and beyond)

I just try to think about the world not being a good place since the beginnings of the human race. It's just that now, we have access to so much information and we have this belief that hindsight should be 20/20. The fact is that there have always been jerks and there will always be jerks.

I try to focus on the stats and not the news... according to the stats, the US is much safer than it was when I was a kid! We just didn't have all the media outlets we do now, reporting on every death and serial killer. All the terrorist attacks stress me out though!

I do a lot of thinking, reading and reflecting. The world is complex and there's lots of good and bad and I take the times where both are in such blatant display to think.

I'm expecting my first, and DH and I are grappling with the feeling of bringing in an innocent being to a scary world. However... I think about how we can raise her to not be scared/sheltered, but to be compassionate and brave. We're never going to live in a utopia with no suffering or violence - unfortunately it is part of living with humans and always has been. But, we can raise our kids to see and be the good in the good in the world as much as possible... to be thankful that you have food to eat, a loving family, and a safe shelter to sleep in each night; to know that every person who wrongs you has a back story; that people all over the world need our help. I hope to teach her kindness, compassion, and a fiery passion to do right in the world. I don't want to shelter or protect her from living.